DH Tools

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About me

Zoe LeBlanc

Assistant Professor, School of Information Sciences, UIUC
zoeleblanc.com

Todayโ€™s Presentation

  1. A (short) long history of DH Tools
  2. Representative examples
  3. Building Network Navigator

What Is a Tool?

The questions of โ€˜who is digital humanities?โ€™ and โ€˜how is digital humanities?โ€™ can evidently be reframed as questions like โ€˜what are the design goals of our tools?โ€™, โ€˜when should a tool โ€œjust workโ€?โ€™, and โ€˜are we tool users, tool builders, or tool theorists?โ€™

Julia Flanders, โ€œJobs, Roles, and Tools in the Digital Humanitiesโ€, 2023

Every humanist uses digital tools.

The false dichotomy of โ€œHack vs.ย Yackโ€

DH Tools?

  • GUI Applications
  • Code libraries
  • Programming Languages
  • Statistics & Models
  • Corpora
  • AI Chatbots
  • Computers

Eternal September

User-friendliness

The Killer App

Some Illustrative Examples

TAPoR 3

Voyant

The Distant Viewing Toolkit

RStudio

Zotero & Omeka

Building a Tool for Network Analysis

Gephi

Palladio

Six Degrees of Francis Bacon

Network Navigator 1.0

Palladio with metrics

Critical Making

Network Navigator 2.0

networknavigator.jrladd.com

Network Navigator 2.0

The Toolmakersโ€™ Tools

Network Navigator 3.0?

Sigma.js, Graphology, Gephi Lite

Who Is Digital Humanities?

What counts as scholarship?

Whatโ€™s next?

Link to full chat

Thank you!

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